Character: Meursault

All - anyway, it doesn't matter, and I know why.

First time in jail the worst was that I was still there were thoughts of a free man.

Why should I change my life?

I have no ambition, and it's bad for business.

Anyway, you always something to blame.

When I was little, my mother told me that sunset cloud is the souls of the dead ascending to heaven. That's the miracle, I thought, means I have the soul red color. Now I know that red cloud simply portend a windy day. But it is also wonderful.

In essence, you are an idealist, said Meursault. He had the feeling his whole life, from birth to death, shrunk, turned in a single moment, the moment of conviction and consecration.
- Let's say, but, you see, the opposite of idealists too often people who are not capable of love.
- Don't believe it.
To think so can only people living either great despair or great hope.
- Both, I guess.

- I have always done against all odds. Now that passions have a little polglish. But before that I wanted to be happy, to do what I please, well, for example, to settle in the land, which would have to be like me. But mysterious and elusive rich does not happen. Therefore, we need to live as easily as possible, not overwrought. The rule is pretty cynical, but stick with it and my wife, the best woman in the world. In Indochina I was taking any bull by the horns. And here he's chewing gum. And that's all.
- Well, but I'm not sure that any mysterious and elusive rich does not happen. Just our attempts to see into the future sometimes unreasonable. Anyway, I am only interested in this experience, whose results fully agree with what we expect.
- Yes, destiny is first and foremost a measure.
- The fate of man can be exciting if it is combined with passion. And for some the addictive fate specifically made to measure.

Happiness can neither extend nor shorten. You're happy, and that's it. Even death is no obstacle to happiness, it's just a coincidence, part of the rules of the game.

I had to drop everything and leave to taste the loneliness that would have helped to understand himself, to understand where the sun is, but where are the tears... Yes, humanly speaking, I'm happy.

- You should not think, little one that we can choose or do what you want, require some conditions to be happy. Most importantly, you see, is the will to happiness, a constant and intense reflection. And all the rest - women, art, success in society is only a pretext. The canvas on which we embroider.
- Right.
- There is a quality of happiness. I can enjoy it only in a stubborn and fierce confrontation with its opposite. If I'm happy? Do you remember, Catherine, the famous formula: "Ah, if I could start life all over again?" So, I begin.

- You don't have to even have a bit of friendly feelings? - not looking in his direction, asked Lucien.
- Friendship? Well, of course. The same as I have for the night.

Just don't expect happiness to come together with a man. How many women make the same mistake! Happiness is inside you, just need to wait for him.

How many people complicate their lives, invent their own destiny...